A passport for the online world
About
The Digital Passport is a practical digital safety and responsibility program for children, teens, and parents. It helps young people understand the online world with confidence, curiosity, kindness, and caution.
Children are already moving through digital spaces every day: games, videos, chats, apps, school platforms, websites, AI tools, and shared devices. The Digital Passport teaches them how to make safer choices in those spaces: what to click, what not to share, when to pause, how to recognise risk, and when to ask a trusted adult for help.
Students learn about online safety, privacy, digital footprints, scams, fake messages, safe links, kindness online, cyberbullying, consent, reputation, and responsible technology use. Parents also receive practical guidance on how to recognise warning signs, open calm conversations, strengthen safety settings, and respond if something online feels wrong.
The Digital Passport workshops were created through a partnership between Robotschool Namibia and SoA Growth & Integrity Consulting, combining child-friendly technology education with ethical awareness, digital safety, and prevention-focused risk thinking.
About SoA Growth & Integrity Consulting
link: https://www.ethicalconsulting.com.na/
SoA Growth & Integrity Consulting is a Windhoek-based consultancy focused on fraud prevention, forensic accounting, compliance, ethical leadership, digital responsibility, and digital-safety education. The organisation helps people and organisations understand where risk can develop, respond before problems become harmful, and build cultures of clarity, trust, and integrity.
In the Digital Passport program, SoA contributes the ethical and risk-awareness foundation. This includes helping children and parents understand privacy, manipulation, scams, digital red flags, cyberbullying, sextortion indicators, evidence preservation, reporting, and responsible online behaviour.
About Melanie Meiring
link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-meiring-cfe-9a6791140/
Melanie Meiring is the owner of SoA Growth & Integrity Consulting and is described publicly as a Certified Fraud Examiner and Associate Professional Accountant. Her work includes forensic, financial, and digital-safety services, with a focus on fraud prevention, weak internal controls, digital-risk exposure, ethics training, and practical support for SMEs, families, youth, and organisations.
For the Digital Passport, Melanie brings a calm, prevention-first approach. The message to families is not fear. It is preparation. Children need to know how to recognise online risks, protect themselves, speak up early, and use technology in a way that is safe, kind, ethical, and responsible.
Digital Passport workshop series
The Digital Passport Workshop Series is divided into four age-appropriate categories: Parents, Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3.
Each workshop is designed to help families build safer, kinder, and more confident digital habits.
Investment:
Parent Workshop NAD 520.00 (VAT incl.)
Level 1, 2 or 3 NAD 850.00 (VAT incl.) Family discounts up to 15% will be applied
Parents Workshop
For parents, guardians, and caregivers of children aged 4–18
This session equips parents with practical tools to guide children safely through the online world. Parents learn how to recognise warning signs, identify digital red flags, understand grooming and sextortion indicators, ask better questions, strengthen safety settings, and respond calmly if something online feels wrong.
Level 1: Digital Basics
Recommended ages: 6–18
Level 1 introduces younger children to the basics of internet safety in a simple and friendly way. Children learn to ask before they click, be kind online, and tell a grown-up if something feels wrong.
The workshop introduces the internet as a connected space and teaches the Stop → Think → Tell rule.
Level 2: Cyber Awareness
Recommended ages: 9–18
Level 2 helps children become “Digital Detectives.” They learn how to spot fake messages, risky links, suspicious websites, scams, clickbait, phishing, safe web addresses, HTTPS locks, and digital footprints. The focus is on checking before trusting and thinking carefully before clicking, posting, or sharing.
Level 3: Digital Responsibility
Recommended ages: 13–18
Level 3 is designed for older children and teens. It explores privacy, consent, data protection, cyberbullying, sextortion, online laws and ethics, digital reputation, and responsible online behaviour. Students learn that what they post today can shape tomorrow’s opportunities, and that real digital strength includes speaking up, acting with integrity, and protecting others online.